Meaning of key log | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The log which, if removed, would free up the whole logjam.
2. The key issue or problem, which if (re)solved, would make the current task easy to complete. The issue around which the whole problem revolves.

Examples

“In a log⟳ jam, where everything is at cross-purposes, there is somewhere a key log⟳ causing the trouble⟳. The key log⟳ in the educational jam is the department, and the things which have⟳ caused it to make⟳ so much trouble⟳ are narrow departmental ambition and excessive striving for reputation through the publication of research⟳.”

“Present⟳ conditions are "a crisis of confidence. . . . Electric utilities are the key log⟳."”

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